Abusos IVE SSVM

Tag: Third Order

  • What would bishops who are friends of the IVE do if they were commissioners?

    What would bishops who are friends of the IVE do if they were commissioners?

    We have received a request to sign a letter addressed to Pope Leo XIV, by members of the Third Order of the Incarnate Word (see text at the end of this article*), asking the Holy Father that, instead of Monsignor Satué, authorities be appointed who “feel true love” for the Institute of the Incarnate Word. Its authors (priests of the IVE, without a doubt) assure, moreover, that there are bishops who love the IVE and would be willing to assume its government.

    The request seems reasonable. But it raises a very concrete question: What would those bishops do differently?

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  • The Third Order of the Institute of the Incarnate Word and the rejection of parents when their children “go out”

    The Third Order of the Institute of the Incarnate Word and the rejection of parents when their children “go out”

    The Third Order of the Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE) brings together lay people who follow a rather diffuse spirituality and without a clearly defined hierarchy. Many of these lay people are fathers and mothers of priests and religious of both the IVE and the Servants of the Lord and of the Virgin of Matará (SSVM). In fact, there is almost an automatic enrollment for the fathers and mothers of members of the IVE in this Third Order. Unlike other more traditional Third Orders, there seems to be no formal register of members or common organizational processes, such as the election of presidents or secretaries. This lack of structure is another characteristic of the mamarrachismo typical of buelismo.

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